Louise Kiernan

Hours after the Chicago Transit Authority opened a massive rail realignment project Sunday, two trains collided in a tunnel near Chinatown, sending 35 people to area hospitals. Though most of...

In 1966 Paul Hannah was an Army medic who earned praise for crawling under enemy gunfire to rescue fellow soldiers in Vietnam. On Friday, he stood erect in a Chicago...

Daniel Garza spent the first quarter-hour of his train ride Monday hunched over a notebook, making a list of things to do once he arrived at his South Bend advertising...

The band played on and the Pirates took the floor to battle Barrington High School, but against the backdrop of mass murder that claimed the life of at least two...

There hasn`t been a shooting in the sprawling Cabrini-Green public housing complex since 7-year-old Dantrell Davis was killed by a sniper as he walked to school two months ago. On...

Nine-year-old Maurice Jackson is used to hearing gunshots in his South Side neighborhood. School was one of the few places he felt safe-until shots rang out shortly after 4 p.m....

While most of the negotiators, deal makers and supporting players who came to Mayor Richard Daley`s office Saturday knew they were in for a long session, one came well prepared...

It took almost 30 hours, but the parties controlling the fate of the Chicago public schools hammered out a tentative compromise Sunday that would eliminate an $84.6 million budget deficit...

Members of Chicago`s Croatian community marked the weekend with events calling for peace in their ravaged homeland. In a visit Sunday to the Croatian Cultural Center, 2845 W. Devon Ave.,...

For Vito Sinkus and others in the shrinking Lithuanian enclave around Marquette Park, the KASA Lithuanian Federal Credit Union was a comfortable place where they could chat in their native...